The official 2010 Topps Heritage thread: rip, sort, trade

Won my first Cardinals stamp on ebay!

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That confirms it! That is exactly what I wanted to see. There are players teamed up with more than one player. Jeter has at least two stamps, one with Pujols and one with Sandoval.

Edited to say Jeter has at least two stamps!

guy on another board just busted 4 cases and only pulled 5 autos, 4 of them commons. He did pull a Mantle/Maris GU and a Ruth GU, but that is over 3 grand
in wax with not much to show for it. My measly pulls are looking better.

Updated trade list after some more great trades with Stoney, and Bob (bjbrall):

2010 Heritage Available

SP's: 427x2Wright, 433, 437x2, 440, 444x2, 448x2, 450x2, 454x2, 462x2, 467, 471x2, 474x2 a-rod, 478, 479 Howard, 482x2,
Ruth Chase '61: Full Set, 15, 14, 13, 12x2, 9, 8, 7x2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
New Age Performers: 1, 6, 11x2, 13, 14
Baseball Flashbacks: 2, 3x2, 8, 10x2
News Flashbacks: 2, 3x2, 8, 10x2
Autos: Reno Bertoia Red Ink #30/61
Black Refractors: Yunel Escobar #57/61
Clubhouse Collection Jersey Relics: Jenks, Kendry Morales, Haren, Bulger, Billy Wagner, Alexei Ramirez, Jeff Francis, Kerry Wood

2010 Heritage Needs

Blue ink Autos: Gibson, Schoendeinst, Aparicio
Short Prints (10): 432, 441, 452, 457, 466, 470, 477, 480, 491, 497
Refractors (12): 31, 33posey, 40, 43, 52, 57, 59, 64, 81, 83, 88, 100
Dice Back Variations (5): Kemp, Justin Upton, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Kinsler, Ichiro

I just confirmed with Clay, there is no Musial or Yaz auto. I will have a complete list up later.

<< <i>The baseballcardpedia.com page is pretty cool. >>


Hey thanks for the site, always looking forchecklists, inventory listing etc. There was someone who had a pretty big list of yearly sets on excel spreadsheets. Might of been on another site. Hope to get my half case today, busting tonight!

No Konerko, but a $90 Kerry Wood jersey instead and not a single card I needed.

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<< <i>guy on another board just busted 4 cases and only pulled 5 autos, 4 of them commons. He did pull a Mantle/Maris GU and a Ruth GU, but that is over 3 grand
in wax with not much to show for it. My measly pulls are looking better. >>



I've busted five cases so far and have pulled four auto's. Two in case #1, none in case #2 or #3, and one each in cases #4 and #5. Luckily none of them are commons. >>




That is awful. 2 cases with no ink. I really think the blue autos are now the short prints...anyone else agree?

Sounds like I've gotten lucky.

From Box 2 of 6:




From Box 3 of 6:

I just got some new Info from topps, there are 10 super short prints along with retail only Mantle
And Maris sets which also include GU versions

Marichal signed only in red ink

do the ruth/mantle/maris count as ssp's?

Nice Link on Variations:

Cardboard Connection Link

Some of the Info, most of which has been figured out on this post:

Topps has announced a larger then usual assortment of short prints and variations in 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball. The full short print / variation checklist is as follows:

Short Printed Base Cards
Base cards 426-500 are short printed and can be found 1:3 packs.

1961 HR Chase Insert
2010 Topps Heritage commemorates the 1961 Topps design, so Topps saw it fitting to celebrate the famous 1961 HR chase with a special 45-card insert

Babe Ruth (15 cards) Hobby Exclusive
Roger Maris (15 cards) Wal-Mart Exclusive
Mickey Mantle (15 cards) Target Exclusive
Each of these inserts also has a Relic Parallel that’s sequentially numbered to the player’s jersey number …Ruth (#’d to 3), Maris (#’d to 9) and Mantle (#’d to 7). In addition, there are short printed variations in the base set featuring Ruth (#60), Maris (#61) and Mantle (#56).

Dice Game Variations
In 1961, Topps issued an obscure 18-card dice game as a test. The following players in 2010 Heritage have short printed variations with dice game backs: Joe Mauer, Victor Martinez, Albert Pujols, Mark Teixeira, Grady Sizemore, Justin Upton, Adam Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Matt Kemp, Ichiro, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Tim Lincecum, Chase Utley, Ian Kinsler, Derek Jeter, Hanley Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez and Chipper Jones.
Color Variations
There are 10 extremely short printed color variations. The color changes appear on the player and team name plates at the bottom of the card.

Albert Pujols Black-Black
Joe Mauer Black-Black
CC Sabathia Green-Yellow
Derek Jeter Red-Yellow
Grady Sizemore Green-Red
J.A. Happ Orange-Blue
Zack Greinke Yellow-Blue
Ryan Braun Blue-Orange
David Wright Green-Yellow
Pablo Sandoval Yellow-Green
Juan Marichal Autographs
All of Juan Marichal’s Real One autographs were signed in red ink and none are sequentially numbered unlike the other Red Ink autographs in the product.

It appears to me that the Ruth, Maris, and Mantle cards are "intermediate" short prints. The 10 color SPs are described as "extreme".

I'm also waiting to get confirmation on the SSPs having all white backs. The SSPs on Ebay that have photos of the card back all appear to be white to me. The Pujols auction actually stated that the card back was white.

<< <i>This SSP card has a white back:

Ebay auction SSP >>



That really sucks. They took all the fun out of looking through the commons for the variations. Way too obvious

The Mantle, Ruth, Maris cards are certainly not SSP's. I'm actually a little excited about retail. There will be 45 Maris jersey cards and 45 Mantle jersey cards
thrown in through all the cards, these will be retail exclusive which makes the odds a bit better for us. I still think that early target 24 count boxes are
gold mines. Topps loads them up at the cost of the later blasters which will be garbage. I also have to wonder if we will start seeing more blue autographs
when retail hits. It appears right now that the reds are more numerous. I just noticed that topps gave no info on the blue ink print run last year or this
year.

My hobby rips have been sadly lacking and autographs have been very hard to trade for, but I think I'm going to turn it around in retail!

I really like that they spread out cool relics for retail. Smart of Topps Marketing/Sales department.

I picked up four boxes for $58@. Crap.

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dang Jim, sorry to hear that..sure you didn't miss something?

Got my case in today after returning from my local. I only grabbed three boxes there, not the half case. This product is going fast in his shop. Out of the case I cracked three boxes. Nothing good yet, seems to be the average that everyone else is pulling. Those three boxes netted:

1 Dice-Pujols green box
3 GUs
24 SPs
12 chromes
3 fracts
4 TNs
18 Ruths
12 FBs-both
4 NA

Looking forward to tomorrow after an appt and a side job. I plan on cracking until I get a real goodie...

Just had to bust one more, but nothing exciting to report. Four down, eleven to go, maybe. I typically put 2-3 boxes away each year. I hope to open until I get a sig of some sort. I don't think I could open 8 or 9 boxes knowing there is an auto left in one of those put into storage.

Thanks, LSU